Posted on 06/20/2020 5:44:08 AM PDT by Oldeconomybuyer
What is the role of women in a political movement as misogynistic as President Donald Trump’s? What does it take to be the consort to an authoritarian?
Washington Post writer Mary Jordan’s deeply reported book focusing on Melania Trump tackles, in its own way, several of these questions. While the initial buzz centered around rumors that the first lady leveraged her husband’s election to revise her prenup - this book is much more than a standard Bob Woodward-style recitation of insider accounts. Far from the helpless stereotype that has become a running punchline, Jordan’s research reveals something larger: the personality and strategy required to become a successful despot’s wife.
The first requirement for such a figure is accepting that the chief role of the feminine in an autocracy is to bolster male sexual power.
From the beginning of their relationship, Melania played this role well, making sure to tell Trump’s detractors that he was “a real man.”
She purred on Howard Stern about Trump’s Olympian bedroom talents. For Trump, she erased her past with other men, including a Frenchman who had gifted her a car.
Melania doesn’t bother to hide her devotion to the trappings of Trump's lavish lifestyle. Her apparent unconcern with the cruelty that is this administration’s hallmark are clear in her White House priorities.
Fascists adored the archetype of the attractive mother. In Italy today, where Steve Bannon has decamped, neo-fascist organization CasaPound has been working to make fascism cool again using an attractive young rightist mother named Carlotta Chiaraluce. Melania, wife of an American president who has privately advocated, according to John Bolton, for executing journalists, would likely be welcome in this club.
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I might pay attention when the same question is asked of JFK...
Ahhh!! “Nina” looks like a guy in drag...
Why do we post this crap about our first lady?
JFC, Nina.
I wonder if she delved into what it must be like to be Hillary Clinton, married to an actual rapist and all around jerk.
This “classy” “woman” said she would GLADLY give Clinton a Blow Job to keep ABORTION LEGAL!!
The Roberts family which controls and owns NBC and Comcast is directly responsible for this direct attack and assault on the trump family. Trump worked and associated with Sicilians for thirty years in the New York construction and real estate business.
“...the cruelty that is this administration’s hallmark...”
What is she even talking about? Any specifics on this cruelty?
Can we make a deal free Republic members? How about when we post articles that are nothing but opinions from these left wing lunatic cult members we put them under “chat” or “personal bloggers” instead of News? Would that be OK for everybody?
Note how the author rolls out with the assumption that the Trump Administration is *misogynist*, as If this was an empirically proven, unassailable fact.
If you don’t buy that entirely unsupported assertion, the entire piece becomes gibberish.
I am grateful beyond words that our Melania is representing our country.
Dear “Author”, other than the useful idiots in your echo chamber, we ALL want to execute “journalists.”
Ducks are always jealous of swans
Trump is a despot? Somebody needs to look up the word in a dictionary.
Good for Condi. She has dealt with a lot from Democrats over the years.
I long for the moment I hear someone shout, “Trump is Hitler!!!” so that I can reply,
“Sweetheart, if Trump were really Hitler, you’d be a lampshade now.”
*smile*
Despot?
Melania’s is anatomically correct for a women
She’s just jealous.
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